14-19 OCTOBER 2012 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA Welcome TOC Welcome to Visweek 2012! This Year’S Program Includes About Seattle

14-19 OCTOBER 2012 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA Welcome TOC Welcome to VisWeek 2012! This year’s program includes About Seattle...... 3 three conferences: IEEE Scientific Visualization (SciVis), Information Visualization (InfoVis), and Visual Analytics Map of Venue...... 3 Science and Technology (VAST); two symposia: the IEEE Committee Members...... 4-6 Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis), and the IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Symposia Posters...... 7 Visualization (LDAV); an art show; and the traditional panels, posters, tutorials, workshops, birds-of-a-feather (BOF) meet- Conference Schedule At-A-Glance...... 8-9 ings, exhibitions, and doctoral colloquium. A new track has BioVis Keynote...... 10 been added tailored for practitioners and industry issues. It promises to be an exciting and stimulating week. LDAV Keynote...... 10

We continue the tradition started last year with topical Session Details...... 10-20 papers published during the last year in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) making up Call for Participation 2013...... 13 four of the technical paper sessions. TVCG will once again publish all of the SciVis and InfoVis papers in a special issue VisWeek Keynote...... 14 of the journal. We are proud to announce that this year 10 Call for Participation: Doctoral Colloquium 2013...... 20 of the VAST papers will also be included in the special issue. The opening session Tuesday will feature keynote speaker VisWeek Capstone...... 20 Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research; the closing session VisWeek Posters & Contests...... 21-22 features capstone speaker Felice Frankel of MIT. Each of the four days will start with a fast-forward session, where every Supporters & Exhibitors...... 23-24 paper to be presented during the day will offer a 25 second preview. The morning fast-forward session showcases the growing body of quality work that our discipline is produc- ing in four parallel technical sessions. As always, a number of other events will enrich the week. How to Order Proceedings Posters from all five venues plus some of the workshops will Additional copies of the SciVis 2012 and InfoVis 2012 CD proceedings can be ordered from: be on display, with their own fast-forward early Tuesday evening, and a special viewing right before the Wednesday IEEE Computer Society By mail: 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Los Alamitos, CA 90720 evening VisWeek reception. The expanded tutorial, work- By phone: +1-800-CS-BOOKS, +1-714-821-8380 (direct) shop, and panel sessions will provide even more stimulating By fax: +1-714-821-4641 discussions. The receptions, breaks, evenings in the lobby, By email: [email protected] various Compass events, and the walkable Seattle down- By web: http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ town area will provide opportunities for social and collabor- Publications/OrderForms/tvcg1.pdf ative interactions. The doctoral colloquium will provide PhD Additional copies of the VAST 2012 proceedings can be students a chance to make connections with researchers ordered from: outside their institution and get feedback on their research IEEE Service Center plans. The exhibitions and special sessions provide a chance By mail: to interact with industry leaders and other sponsors. 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 By phone: +1-800-678-IEEE, +1-732-981-0060 (direct) Welcome to Seattle, and have a great VisWeek! By fax: +1-732-981-9667 By email: [email protected] Richard May, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory By web: http://shop.ieee.org William Pike, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory VisWeek 2012 General Chairs Russell M. Taylor II, (SciVis) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill IEEE Computer Society Frank van Ham, (InfoVis) IBM Research To become a member visit http://computer.org/join Jonathan C. Roberts, (VAST) Bangor University Jessie Kennedy, (BioVis) Edinburgh Napier University Raghu Machiraju, (BioVis) The Ohio State University Nils Gehlenborg, (BioVis) Harvard University IEEE Visualization and Graphics Chris Johnson, (LDAV) University of Utah Technical Committee (VGTC) Michael Papka, (LDAV) Argonne National Laboratory For information on awards, national initiatives, conferences and VisWeek 2012 Conference & Symposia Chairs symposia, and a comprehensive membership directory, please visit http://vgtc.org/. 2 Seattle, WA About Seattle, Washington In 2012, VisWeek comes to the beautiful city of Seattle, Washington. Downtown Seattle is easily walkable and waiting to be explored. Shopping, dining, arts, and visitor attractions are within steps of hotels and inns. The city is surrounded by pristine waterways, two mountain ranges, and three national parks. To the west lies the only temperate rain forest in the continental U.S.; to the east, a world- class wine region. Map of Venue The Sheraton Seattle Hotel

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1 3 Art Show Located in Grand Ballroom A & throughout the conference area. Opening Show, Wednesday, 7:30pm during VisWeek reception. Tuesday, 10am - 6pm 5 Exhibits Conference Registration 1 Wednesday - Thursday, 8:30am - 6pm Located in 2nd Floor Foyer Located in Spruce (except Saturday) 4 Posters Tuesday - Thursday, 10am - 6pm Saturday, 6pm - 8pm (located @ 1st floor lobby, near escalator) Symposia: BioVis & LDAV 6 Internet Access Sunday, 7am - 4:30pm Located in 2nd Floor Foyer Located in Diamond Monday - Thursday, 7:30am - 4:30pm Sunday - Monday, 8:30am - 5:55pm Sunday - Thursday, 7am - 5pm Friday, 7:30am - 10:30am Hosted Viewing, Sunday, 6:15pm - 7:30pm Friday, 7am - 11pm VisWeek 2 Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Board Located in Grand Ballroom A 7 Speaker Preparation Check the board for conference times Tuesday, 10:10am - 5:55pm Located in Everett and locations. All conference attendees are Wednesday - Thursday, 8:30am - 5:55pm Sunday - Thursday, 7:30am - 5pm welcome. Located next to Registration. Hosted Viewing, Wednesday, 6:15pm - 7:30pm Friday, 7:30am - 9am 3 VisWeek 2012 Committee Members VisWeek Conference Committee Art Show Chairs Birds of a Feather Chairs VisWeek General Chairs Daniel F. Keefe, University of Minnesota Zoë Wood, California Polytechnic State University Richard May, Pacific Northwest National Bruce D. Campbell, Rhode Island School of Design Xiaoyu Wang, University of North Carolina Laboratory Lauren Thorson, Minneapolis College of Art and at Charlotte William Pike, Pacific Northwest National Design Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research Laboratory Tutorial Chairs Finance Chairs Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Petra Isenberg, INRIA Maria Velez, CA Technologies Laboratory Gordon Kindlmann, University of Chicago Loretta Auvil, University of Illinois SciVis Conference Chair Robert Kosara, University of North Carolina Publicity Chairs Russell M. Taylor II, University of North at Charlotte Amit Chourasia, San Diego Supercomputing Carolina, Chapel Hill Contest & Challenge Chairs Center InfoVis Conference Chair Jean Favre, Swiss Center for Scientific Computing Enrico Bertini, Universität Konstanz Frank van Ham, IBM Research Gabriel Zachmann, University of Bremen Peter Bak, IBM Research VAST Conference Chair Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts, Publication & Project Coordinator Lowell Jonathan C. Roberts, Bangor University Meghan Haley, Junction Publishing Kristin Cook, Pacific Northwest National Web & Graphic Design BioVis Symposium Chairs Laboratory Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University Twig Gallemore, Elevation Design+Architecture Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Melissa Kingman, Elevation Design+Architecture Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University Laboratory Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard University A/V Workshop Chairs Todd Szymanski, Munday & Collins AV Large Data Vis. Symposium Chairs Carlos Scheidegger, AT&T Labs-Research Chris Johnson, University of Utah Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research Local Arrangements Carrie Almquist, Pacific Northwest National Michael Papka, Argonne National Laboratory Tobias Schreck, Universität Konstanz Laboratory Program Chairs Exhibit Chairs Gautam Chaudhary, University of California, Steven Drucker, Microsoft Research Irvine Lisa Avila, Kitware VisWeek Executive Committee Rachael Brady, Cisco Systems Adam Perer, IBM Research Rachael Brady, Cisco Systems Paper Chairs Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer Institute Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University Jason Dykes, City University London (InfoVis) Mark Livingston, Naval Research Laboratory Industry Outreach Chair David H. Laidlaw, Brown University (SciVis) Robert Moorhead, Mississippi State University Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University (SciVis) Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University Doctoral Colloquium Chairs Giuseppe Santucci, Università degli Studi di Daniel Keim, Universität Konstanz Christopher G. Healey, North Carolina State Roma “La Sapienza” (VAST) William Ribarsky, University of North Carolina University Gerik Scheuermann, Universität Leipzig (SciVis) at Charlotte Niklas Elmqvist, Purdue University Matthew O. Ward, Worcester Polytechnic John T. Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology Leland Wilkinson, Systat Software Institute (VAST) Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia Chris Weaver, University of Oklahoma (InfoVis) Student Volunteer Chairs Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University Krishna Chaitanya Gurijala, Stony Brook Poster & Interactive Demo Chairs Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland University Remco Chang, Tufts University David Koop, Polytechnic Institute of New York Jeff Heer, Stanford University University SciVis Program Committee T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Mississippi State University Wes Kendall, University of Tennessee, Knoxville James Ahrens, Los Alamos National Laboratory Ross Maciejewski, Arizona State University Chandra Bajaj, University of Texas, Austin Thomas Schultz, Max Plank Institute for Professional’s Compass Chairs G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Pittsburgh Daniel Bergeron, University of New Hampshire Intelligent Systems David Breen, Drexel University Melanie Tory, University of Victoria Alex Endert, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Peer-Timo Bremer, Lawrence Livermore Fast Forward Chairs Daniel Best, Pacific Northwest National National Laboratory Fanny Chevalier, University of Toronto Laboratory Stefan Bruckner, Vienna University of Technology Song Zhang, Mississippi State University Hamish Carr, University of Leeds Webmaster Baoquan Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences Panel Chairs Daniel Acevedo-Feliz, King Abdullah University Hamish Carr, University of Leeds of Science and Technology Min Chen, Oxford University Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research Paolo Cignoni, ISTI-CNR, Italy Appmaster Margaret Varga, Oxford University Carlos Correa, Lawrence Livermore National Jens Krüger, Interactive Visualization and Data Laboratory Analysis (IVDA) Group 4 Carsten Dachsbacher, Karlsruher Institut für Ruediger Westermann, Technische Universität Stephen North, AT&T Labs Technologie (KIT) München Penny Rheingans, University of Maryland, Leila de Floriani, University of Genova Ross Whitaker, University of Utah Baltimore County David Duke, University of Leeds Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University Anthony Robinson, The Pennsylvania State David S. Ebert, Purdue University Xiaoru Yuan, Peking University University Reza Entezari, University of Florida Eugene Zhang, Oregon State University Heidrun Schumann, Universität Rostock Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart Ye Zhao, Kent State University Jinwook Seo, Seoul National University Issei Fujishiro, Keio University John T. Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology Kelly Gaither, Texas Advanced Computing Center SciVis Steering Committee Martin Theus, Telefonica O2 Germany \ University of Augsburg Christoph Garth, University of California, Davis Hans Hagen, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Christian Tominski, Universität Rostock Joachim Giesen, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University Jarke van Wijk, Technische Universiteit Hans Hagen, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Mark Livingston, Naval Research Laboratory Eindhoven Charles Hansen, University of Utah Robert Moorhead, Mississippi State University Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Peter Hastreiter, Friedrich Alexander Universität Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University Erlangen Nürnberg Hadley Wickham, Rice University Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University Helwig Hauser, University of Bergen Leland Wilkinson, SYSTAT Inc. Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland Martin Hering-Bertram, Hochschule Bremen Kent Wittenburg, Mitsubishi Electric Research Mario Hlawitschka, Universität Leipzig Laboratories \ MERL Victoria Interrante , University of Minnesota InfoVis Program Committee Jo Wood, City University London Ming Jiang, Lawrence Livermore National Wolfgang Aigner, Vienna University of Technology Michelle Zhou, IBM Almaden Research Center Laboratory Natalia Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Brown University Dave Kao, NASA Ames Research Daniel Archambault, University College Dublin Daniel Keefe, University of Minnesota Enrico Bertini, Universität Konstanz InfoVis Steering Committee Ulrik Brandes, Universität Konstanz Gordon Kindlmann, University of Chicago Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary (Robert) Mike Kirby, University of Utah Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University Steven Drucker, Microsoft Research Martin Kraus, Aalborg University Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia Tim Dwyer, Microsoft Research Jens Krüger, Interactive Visualization and Data Benjamin Shneiderman, University of Analysis (IVDA) Group Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA Maryland Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research John T. Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology Heike Leitte, Heidelberg University Michael Gleicher, University of Wisconsin, Martin Wattenberg, Google Inc. Madison Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis Jarke J. van Wijk, Eindhoven University of Georgeta-Elisabeta Marai, University of John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Technology Pittsburgh Diansheng Guo, University of South Carolina Helwig Hauser, University of Bergen Vijay Natarajan, Indian Institute of Science, VAST Program Committee Bangalore Christopher Healey, North Carolina State Wolfgang Aigner, Vienna University of Technology Valerio Pascucci, University of Utah University Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS Voicu Popescu, Purdue University Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University Enrico Bertini, Universität Konstanz Bernhard Preim, Otto von Guericke Universität Nathalie Henry Riche, Microsoft Research Magdeburg Harry Hochheiser, University of Pittsburgh Alessio Bertone, Technische Universität Dresden Hong Qin, Stony Brook University Danny Holten, SynerScope BV Remco Chang, Tufts University Penny Rheingans, University of Maryland, TJ Jankun-Kelly, Mississippi State University Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari Baltimore County Daniel Keim, Universität Konstanz John Dill, Simon Fraser University William Ribarsky, University of Noth Carolina, Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University David S. Ebert, Purdue University Charlotte Robert Kincaid, Agilent Laboratories Geoffrey Ellis, Universität Konstanz Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen Robert Kosara, University of North Carolina at Niklas Elmqvist, Purdue University Claudio Silva, New York University Charlotte Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart Shigeo Takahashi, Tokyo University Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA Alex Telea, University of Groningen Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis Brian Fisher, Simon Fraser University Matthias Teschner, Universität Freiburg Ross Maciejewski, Arizona State University Carsten Görg, University of Colorado Holger Theisel, Otto von Guericke Universität Florian Mansmann, Universität Konstanz Ming Hao, HP Magdeburg Michael McGuffin, L’École de technologie Jimmy Johansson, Linköping University Xavier Tricoche, Purdue University supérieure Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD Ana Vilanova, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Guy Melançon, CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI \ INRIA Zhicheng Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology Chaoli Wang, Michigan Technological University Bordeaux Sud-Ouest Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis Gunther Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Miriah Meyer, University of Utah Ross Maciejewski, Arizona State University Laboratory Chris Muelder, University of California, Davis Guy Melançon, CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI \ INRIA Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia Bordeaux Sud-Ouest Rephael Wenger, The Ohio State University Chris North, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology State University Rosane Minghim, University of São Paulo Daniela Oelke, Universität Konstanz Huamin Qu, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology William Ribarsky, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Heidrun Schumann, Universität Rostock 5 Committee Members Chris Shaw, Simon Fraser University Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland LDAV Symposium Committee Jarke van Wijk, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven David Marshall, James Hutton Institute Symposium Chairs Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart Program Committee Chris Johnson, University of Utah Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Jan Aerts, KU Leuven Michael Papka, Argonne National Laboratory Laboratory Otto Anshus, University of Tromsø Program Chairs Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Gill Bejerano, Stanford University Roger Barga, Microsoft Research Laboratory Enrico Bertini, Universität Konstanz Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University William Wright, Oculus Info Inc. Judith Blake, The Jackson Laboratory David Rogers, Sandia National Laboratories Stefan Wrobel, Universität Bonn Charl Botha, Delft University of Technology Posters Chairs Jing Yang, University of North Carolina at Stefan Bruckner, Vienna University of Venkatram Vishwanath, Argonne National Charlotte Technology Laboratory Greg Carter, The Jackson Laboratory Danny Dunlavy, Sandia National Laboratories VAST Steering Committee Inna Dubchak, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Contest Chair Daniel Keim, Universität Konstanz David Duke, University of Leeds David S. Ebert, Purdue University Maitreya Dunham, University of Washington Sean Ahern, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Richard May, Pacific Northwest National Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University International Program Committee Laboratory Carsten Görg, University of Colorado Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley National Brian Fisher, Simon Fraser University Joel Graber, The Jackson Laboratory Laboratory William Ribarsky, University of North Carolina David Gresham, New York University Min Chen, Oxford University at Charlotte Hans-Christian Hege, Zuse-Institute Hank Childs, Lawrence Berkeley National Larry Rosenblum, National Science Foundation Matthew Hibbs, The Jackson Laboratory Laboratories William Pike, Pacific Northwest National Larry Hunter, University of Colorado Pat Crossno, Sandia National Laboratories Laboratory Daniel Huson, University of Tübingen Carsten Dachsbacher, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard School of Public Mike Dobin, Exxon BioVis Symposium Committee Health Chris Johnson, University of Utah Michael Doggett, Lund University General Chairs Alark Joshi, Boise State University Steven Drucker, Microsoft Research Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University Igor Jurisica, Ontario Cancer Institute Niklas Elmqvist, Purdue University Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School Carl Kingsford, University of Maryland Issei Fujishiro, Keio University Paper Chairs Michael Lappe, Max Planck Berlin Kelly Gaither, University of Austin, Texas Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen Lars Linsen, Jacobs University Berk Geveci, Kitware, Inc Matt Hibbs, The Jackson Laboratory Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University Marcus Hadwiger, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Poster Chairs Heimo Müller, Medical University of Graz Bill Howe, University of Washington Cydney Nielsen, British Columbia Cancer Florian Markowetz, University of Cambridge Agency Genome Sciences Centre Won-Ki Jeong, Ulsan National Institute of David Marshall, James Hutton Institute Robert Kincaid, Agilent Laboratories Science and Technology Dorit Merhof, Universität Konstanz Ming Jiang, Lawrence LIvermore National Publication Chairs Miriah Meyer, University of Utah Laboratory Miriah Meyer, University of Utah Scooter Morris, University of California, Kirk Jordan, IBM Jan Aerts, Leuven University San Fransico Ken Joy, University of California, Davis Primer/Tutorial Chairs Chad Myers, University of Minnesota Jens Krüger, Interactive Visualization and Data Carsten Görg, University of Colorado Kay Nieselt, University of Tübingen Analysis (IVDA) Group Kay Nieselt, University of Tübingen Bernhard Preim, University of Magdeburg Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis William Ray, The Ohio State University Challenges Chairs Patrick McCormick, Los Alamos National Lab Seán O’Donoghue, Garvan Institute/CSIRO Matt Rockman, New York University Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University Bernhard Preim, University of Magdeburg Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen Marc Olano, University of Maryland, Baltimore Contest Chairs Timo Ropinski, Linköping University County William Ray, The Ohio State University Reinhard Schneider, EMBL Rob Ross, Argonne National Lab Christopher Bartlett, The Ohio State University Falk Schreiber, IPK Gatersleben Allen Sanderson, University of Utah Industry and Fundraising Chairs Mona Singh, Princeton University Claudio Silva, New York University Kun Huang, The Ohio State University Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Philipp Slusallek, University Saarbrücken G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Pittsburg Marjan Trutschl, Louisiana State University Ruediger Westermann, Technical University Sacha van Hijum, Radboud University Website and Publicity Chairs Munich Nijmegen Medical Centre Alexander Lex, Graz University of Technology Hongfeng Yu, University of Nebraska Robert van Liere, CWI Amsterdam Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Steering Committee Gunther Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National James Ahrens, Los Alamos National Laboratory Steering Committee Laboratory Larry Hunter, University of Colorado Chris Johnson, University of Utah Michel Westenberg, Technical University Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University Eindhoven Michael Papka, Argonne National Laboratory Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia Alexander Wiebel, Zuse Institute Berlin Anders Ynnerman, Linköpings Universitet 6 Symposia Posters BioVis Posters LDAV Posters Poster Viewings 2nd Floor Foyer Poster Viewings 2nd Floor Foyer Sunday 8:30am - Monday 5:55pm Sunday 8:30am - Monday 5:55pm Hosted Poster Viewing Hosted Poster Viewing Sunday 6:15pm - 7:30pm Sunday 6:15pm - 7:30pm

Tractography in Context: Multimodal Visualization of Probabilistic Enabling Interactive Mesh Quality Exploration of Large Scale CFD Tractograms in Anatomical Context, Anne Berres, Mathias Goldau, Simulations in Virtual Environments, Fang Chen, Christian Wagner, Marc Tittgemeyer, Gerik Scheuermann, Hans Hagen Markus Flatken, Andreas Gerndt, Hans Hagen compreheNGSive: A Tool for Exploring Next-Gen Sequencing Variants, Better Understanding of the Web through 3D Visualization, Zhiming Alex Bigelow, Miriah Meyer, Nicola Camp Chen, Andras Farago Bulk Synchronous Visualization, Lars Ailo Bongo Poster: Building a Large Tiled-Display Cluster, J o n a t h a n D e c k e r , The New UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser, Brian Craft, Teresa Swatloski, Mark Livingston Mary Goldman, Kyle Ellrott, Singer Ma, Chris Wilks, Josh Stuart, David DASH- Data Abstraction and Sharing, Stefan Eilemann Haussler, Jing Zhu Interactive Visual Analytics of Coastal Oceanographic Simulation data, MedSavant: Visual Analytics for Genetic Variation Datasets, Marc Fiume, Richard George, Peter Robbins, Alan Davies, Jonathan Roberts Eric Smith, Andrew Brook, Michael Brudno Spectroscopy of Performance Anomalies in the Cloud, Arun Kejariwal GenomeRing: alignment visualization based on SuperGenome coordi- Interaction Techniques for a Strata Treemap, O h - h y u n K w o n , nates, Alexander Herbig, Günter Jäger, Florian Battke, Kay Nieselt Junghong Choi, Kyungwon Lee Getting Into Visualization of Large Biological Data Sets, Martin Krzywinski, Anomaly Analysis and Visualization through Compressed Graphs, Qi Liao, Inanc Birol, Steven Jones, Marco Marra Lei Shi, Xiaohua Sun StratomeX: Enabling Visualization-Driven Cancer Subtype Analysis, A Static Load Balancing Scheme for Parallel Volume Rendering on Alexander Lex, Marc Streit, Hans-Joerg Schulz, Christian Partl, Multi-GPU Clusters, Shusen Liu, Venkatram Vishwanath, Joseph Insley, Dieter Schmalstieg, Peter J. Park, Nils Gehlenborg Mark Hereld, Michael E. Papka, Valerio Pascucci Visualization and Exploration of 3D Toponome Data, Steffen Oeltze, Visualizing Nearest Neighbours for Large High Dimensional Real Datasets, Paul Klemm, Reyk Hillert, Bernhard Preim, Walter Schubert Mounica Maddela, Kamalakar Karlapalem An Abstract View of Associations Between Diseases and Developmental Hybrid Distributed Rendering, Georg Tamm, Thomas Fogal, Jens Krüger Gene Sets, Jisoo Park, Keith Noto, Daniel Kee, Heather Wick, Donna Slonim Hybrid Parallel Streamline Extraction Combining MPI and OpenCL, Visual Analysis of Genome-wide Tracts of Homozygosity, Sean Reber, Michael Vetter, Stephan Olbrich Ye Zhao, Li Zhang, Mohammed Orloff, Charis Eng Volumetric Data Modeling and Reduction in a Compressive Sensing Aracari: exploration of eQTL data through visualization, Ryo Sakai, Framework, Xie Xu, Mahsa Mirzargar, Alireza Entezari Christopher Bartlett, Dusan Popovic, William Ray, Jan Aerts A Particle Filter Based Approach of Visualizing Time-varying Volume, User-guided Segmentation of Thoracic Computed Tomography Data Jian Zhao for Electrical Impedance Tomography Image Reconstruction, Peter Salz, Andreas Reske, Hermann Wrigge, Gerik Scheuermann, Hans Hagen A System for More Intuitive Multivariate Volume Exploration and Visualization, Liang Zhou, Charles Hansen Using a Mathematical Graph Framework for Visualization of Inheritance Patterns in Commercial Plant Pedigrees, Paul D. Shaw, Jessie Kennedy, Iain Milne, Martin Graham, David F. Marshall Scalable Interactive Analysis of Retinal Astrocyte Networks, Panuakdet Suwannatat, Gabriel Luna, Geoffrey P. Lewis, Steven K. Fisher, Tobias Höllerer Can Adjacency Matrices help in the exploration and understanding of Multi-Omics Data?, Georg Tremmel, Atsushi Niida, Satoru Miyano Extending The Grammar of Graphics for Biological Data Visualization, Tengfei Yin, Dianne Cook, Michael Lawrence

7 VisWeek 2012 Sunday Monday Tuesday VISWEEK EVENTS BioVis LDAV VAST VISWEEK EVENTS BioVis LDAV VW VAST InfoVis SciVis Grand Blrm C Grand Blrm D Grand Blrm C Grand Blrm D Grand Blrm B Grand Blrm C Grand Blrm D 8:00am l VisWeek Welcome & Keynote l l l l l l l l l l @ Grand Ballroom BCD 8:30am Symposia Posters @ 2nd Floor Foyer Visual & CG Data Analytics @ Grand Ballroom B Tutorial: Perception & Cognition for Imaging, Vis, Workshop: 2012: Beyond BELIV Time and Errors - Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization @ Willow AB Workshop: VAST Challenge @ Cedar Symposia Posters @ 2nd Floor Foyer Web with D3.js @ Grand Ballroom B Tutorial: Introduction to Data Visualization on the Workshop: Interactive Visual Text Analytics: Task-Driven Analysis of Social Media Content @ Willow AB Workshop: Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security @ Redwood AB Tutorial: Visualizing Data in R and Ggobi @ Grand Ballroom A l Tutorial: and Parameter Uncertainty Space Analysis in Visualization @ Grand Ballroom A l Welcome l Papers: l Keynote: Lessons Learned & Cellular 9:00am Keynote: An- Evaluating Two Decades of Keynote: Divide & Data nounce- Novel Information Project Recombi- ments, Visualizations, Mary Mind- 9:30am ne, Pat Keynote Czerwinski Scope, Hanrah- & Paper Christof an, & FF 10:00am Koch Paper FF l VisWeek Papers FF l @ Grand Ballroom C BREAK BREAK VisWeek Posters @ Grand Ballroom A 10:30am l l l l l l l Papers: Papers: Papers: Papers: Papers: Papers: SciVis Neuro- Interact- Bio- Visual- Cluster- Evalua- Special 11:00am biology ing with mole- ization ing, tion and Session: Large cular of Large Classi- Method- Four fica- ology Views 11:30am Data Data & Data Path- tion & on Vis in ways Correla- Science tion & Edu. 12:00pm LUNCH BREAK LUNCH 1:00pm LUNCH BREAK BREAK l Compass: Industry Lunch @ 2nd Floor Foyer l l l 2:00pm

Visualization @ Grand Ballroom B Tutorial: Natural Language Processing for Text l l Relationships in Data & Beyond @ Grand Ballroom B Tutorial: Connecting the Dots – Showing l l Tutorial: Good Practice of Visual Comm @ Willow AB l l l Papers: Papers: Contest Papers: Papers: Papers: Papers: Systems Features & Founda- Text and Graphs Evalu- 2:30pm Biology in Large Commu- tional Categori- and Net- ation & Omics Data nity Techni- cal Data works Data ques for l Exhibits @ 2nd Floor Foyer Analysis 3:00pm Large Data 3:30pm

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l l Poster l l l l l 4:30pm Poster FF, Panel: Chal- Awards Papers: Papers: Invited Talks & Insights lenges Visual- Repre- Papers: Poster into Lar- Session, Comput- senta- TVCG on 5:00pm FF ge Data Awards ational tion & Volume Analysis & Analysis Percep- Visuali- Closing of Multi- tion zation 5:30pm Remarks variate Data

6:00pm l Visweek Posters Fast Forward l Symposia Poster Viewing @ Grand Ballroom C (6pm- 6:45pm) 6:30pm @ 2nd Floor Foyer (6:15pm - 7:30pm)

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l Symposia Reception 8:00pm @ Grand Ballroom CD (7:30pm - 9:30pm)

9:00pm 8 At-a-Glance Wednesday Thursday Friday VW EVENTS VAST InfoVis SciVis VW EVENTS VAST InfoVis SciVis EVENTS InfoVis SciVis Willow AB Grand Blrm B Grand Blrm C Grand Blrm D Willow AB Grand Blrm B Grand Blrm C Grand Blrm D Grand Blrm B Grand Blrm C Grand Blrm D l VisWeek Papers Fast Forward l VisWeek Papers Fast Forward l VisWeek Papers Fast Forward 8:00am @ Grand Ballroom C @ Grand Ballroom C @ Grand Ballroom C l l 8:30am VisWeek Posters @ Grand Ballroom A l l l l VisWeek Posters @ Grand Ballroom A l l l l l l l Industry Papers: Papers: Papers: Work- Papers: Papers: Papers: Panel: Papers: Papers: Present- Sense- Space Flow shop: Space Inter- Analytics Balancing Education TVCG 9:00am ations: making and and Tur- Scheher- and Time action Personal and on Flow A View and Maps bulence azade’s + & Profes- Popular Visuali- for the Colla- Toolbox: The sional Life Applica- zation 9:30am Future boration Artists Analysis as a Vis- tions Meet Process ualization Visualiz- Scientist 10:00am tion BREAK BREAK BREAK l l l l l l l l VisWeek Closing & Capstone 10:30am Panel: VAST Papers: Papers: Papers: InfoVis Papers: @ Grand Ballroom BCD Global Special Design Volume Applica- Special Volume 11:00am Challen- Session Spaces Data tions, Session: Rend- Capstone: Help Me See! Some ges in Fi- Visual Handl- Design Tales ering Thoughts From a Potential nancial Analytics ing Studies, from User, Felice C. Frankel 11:30am Systemic in and the Tre- Risk Practice Tools nches Analysis 12:00pm l Exhibits @ 2nd Floor Foyer LUNCH BREAK l Exhibits @ 2nd Floor Foyer LUNCH BREAK l VisWeek Feedback Session l 1:00pm Compass: Mentors’ Lunch @ Grand Ballroom B @ 2nd Floor Foyer

2:00pm l l l l l l l l Tutorial: Work- Panel: Papers: Tutorial: Panel: Papers: Papers: Color shop: Repro- Inter- Inter- Quality Text and Geo 2:30pm Theory Visual ductable action active of Time Appli- Methods Analytics Visuali- and Visual Visuali- cations for in Heal- zation Render- Analysis zation: 3:00pm Visuali- thcare Research ing of Scien- The Bake zation —Open tific Off Health Data 3:30pm Data BREAK BREAK 4:00pm

l l l l l Papers: Papers: Papers: Papers: Papers: 4:30pm TVCG on Topology TVCG on Sketch- Physical Inform- and Visual ing and Science ation Fields Analytics Design- Appli- 5:00pm Visualiz- ing cations ation Visuali- zations 5:30pm l SciVis l Compass: Meet the Candidate Contest 6:00pm l VisWeek Poster Viewing @ 2nd Floor Foyer (6 - 6:30) @ Grand Ballroom A 6:30pm (6:15pm - 7:30pm)

7:00pm l VisWeek Reception @ Grand Ballroom BCD (7:30pm) 8:00pm l Art Show Opening @ the Reception. 9:00pm 9 Program Details VisWeek 2012 Sunday, 14 October

Full Day l Tutorial (2:00pm - 5:55pm) Grand Ballroom B Natural Language Processing for Text Visualization l Tutorial (8:30am - 5:55pm) Grand Ballroom A Contributors: Daniela Oelke, Saeedeh Momtazi, Daniel A. Keim Visualizing Data in R and Ggobi Contributors: Di Cook, Heike Hofmann, Hadley Wickham The complexity of natural language challenges automated methods of natural language processing (NLP). We describe We will describe how the open-source statistical programming current visual analytics tools and underlying NLP methods for environment R, the interactive and dynamic graphics package visualizing large quantities of text data in a way that helps users ggobi, and the plotting system ggplot2, together support effec- bridge the semantic gap between background knowledge and tive high-dimensional data exploration and visualization. The algorithmic output. course will introduce these tools, and highlight how modern algorithmic techniques can help discern “real” structure from randomness in plots. 8:30am - 10:10am l Workshop (8:30am - 5:55pm) Willow AB l BioVis Welcome Grand Ballroom C BELIV 2012: Beyond Time and Errors - Novel Evaluation Methods BioVis Keynote: Project MindScope for Visualization Speaker: Christof Koch, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute Contributors: Enrico Bertini, Adam Perer, Heidi Lam, Petra of Brain Science Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg The Allen Institute for Brain Science has initiated a ten year The BELIV workshop series is a bi-annual event focusing on project to study the principles by which information is encoded, the challenges of evaluation in visualization. While it has been transformed and represented in the mammalian cerebral cortex focused on information visualization in the past, BELIV 2012 and related structures. The Institute will build a series of brain aims at gathering researchers in all fields of visualization to observatories to identify, record and intervene in the neuronal continue the exploration of novel evaluation methods, and to networks underlying visually guided behaviors in the mouse, structure the knowledge on evaluation in visualization around including visual perception, decision making and conscious- a schema, where researchers can easily identify unsolved prob- ness. This is a large-scale, in-house team effort to synthesize lems and research gaps. genomic, anatomical, physiological and theoretical knowledge into a description of the wiring scheme of the cortex, at both l VAST Workshop (8:30am - 5:55pm) Cedar the structural and the functional levels. I will describe the asso- VAST Challenge ciated computational and informatics challenges. The fruits of Chairs: Kristen Cook, Georges Grinstein, Mark Whiting this cerebroscope will be freely available to the public. The VAST Challenge is a participation category of the IEEE VAST Conference (part of VisWeek). The VAST Challenge continues 8:45am - 10:10am in the footsteps of the VAST Challenges of 2008 through 2011, l LDAV Grand Ballroom D and the 2007 and 2006 contests with the purpose of pushing Welcome, Keynote, Paper Fast Forward the forefront of visual analytics tools using benchmark data Keynote: Divide and Recombine: An Approach for Analyzing sets. The VAST Challenge workshop will be an event where Large Datasets contest organizers, participants, and conference attendees can Speaker: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University come together to review and discuss this year’s Challenge. The Analyzing large datasets is often difficult because systems and workshop will include presentations by participant about their algorithms do not scale. Even routine processing tasks are dif- submissions, invited speakers, panel discussions, and other ficult to run and may take a long time. Many common analyti- activities. cal algorithms cannot be applied to large datasets because they are either superlinear in time or space. In this talk I will describe Half day our approach for analyzing large datasets that we call Divide and Recombine (D&R). D&R is built using RHIPE, a system that l Tutorial (8:30am - 12:10pm) Grand Ballroom B runs parallel R map-reduce jobs using Hadoop. We use D&R to Perception and Cognition for Imaging, Visualization, Visual Data run virtual experiments over large datasets. In a virtual experi- Analysis and Computer Graphics ment, we sample the data using a technique from experimen- Contributor: Bernice E. Rogowitz tal design, we then analyze the results of that experiment, and The visual representations provided by imaging, visualization, finally combine all the experiments into a single result. This is and computer graphics are processed with a highly evolved joint work with Bill Cleveland. perceptual and cognitive systems in the human observer. This course will teach the principles of these systems and help prac- 10:10am - 10:30am titioners apply this knowledge to create interactive visualization l and computer graphics applications. Coffee Break

10 10:30am - 12:10pm 2:00pm - 3:40pm l BioVis Papers Grand Ballroom C l BioVis Papers Grand Ballroom C Neurobiology Systems Biology and Omics Data Chair: Hans-Christian Hege Chair: Larry Hunter Neurobiology Primer Talk, Christopher Bartlett Systems Biology and Omics Data Primer Talk, Cydney Nielsen Interactive Extraction of Neural Structures with User-Guided MaTSE: The Microarray Time-Series Explorer, Paul Craig, Alan Morphological Diffusion, Yong Wan, Hideo Otsuna, Chi-Bin Cannon, Robert Kukla, Jessie Kennedy Chien, Charles Hansen Gene-RiViT: A Visualization Tool for Comparative Analysis of INCIDE the Brain of a Bee: Visualising Honeybee Brain Activity Gene Neighborhoods in Prokaryotes, Adam Price, Robert Kosara, in Real Time by Semantic Segmentation, M a r t i n S t r a u c h , Cynthia Gibas Marc P. Broeg, Clemens Müthing, Paul Szyszka, Oliver Deussen, ADVISe: Visualizing the Dynamics of Enzyme Annotations in C. Giovanni Galizia, Dorit Merhof UniProt/SwissProt, Sabrina Silveira, Artur Rodrigues, Raquel Towards Real-Time Visualization of Detailed Neural Tissue Melo-Minardi, Carlos Silveira, Wagner Meira Jr Models: View Frustum Culling for Parallel Rendering, Heterogeneity-based Guidance for Exploring Multiscale Data Juan Hernando, Felix Schürmann, Luis Pastor in Systems Biology, Martin Luboschik, Carsten Maus, Hans-Jörg Visualization of Serial Electron Microscopy Images Using Local Schulz, Heidrun Schumann, Adelinde Uhrmacher Variance, David Mayerich, John Hart l LDAV Papers Grand Ballroom D l LDAV Papers Grand Ballroom D Features in Large Data Interacting with Large Data Efficient Parallel Extraction of Crack-free Isosurfaces from Panning and Zooming the Observable Universe with Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) Data, Gunther Weber Subsequence-Matching Trees, Timothy Luciani Parallel Stream Surface Computation for Large Data Sets, David Interactive Exploration of Large-scale Time-varying Data using Camp Dynamic Tracking Graphs, Wathsala Widanagamaachchi Salient Time Steps Selection from Large Scale Time-Varying Data Interactive Transfer Function Design on Large Multiresolution Sets with Dynamic Time Warping, Xin Tong Volumes, Steven Martin On The Use of Graph Search Techniques for The Analysis of Query-driven Parallel Exploration of Large Datasets, Extreme-scale Combustion Simulation Data, Janine Bennett Atanas Atanasov 3:40pm - 4:15pm 12:10pm - 2:00pm l Coffee Break l Lunch Break 4:15pm - 5:30pm l LDAV Poster Fast Forward Grand Ballroom D LDAV Panel: Insights into Large Data Analysis Chair: Chris Johnson 4:15pm - 5:55pm l BioVis Poster Talks & Grand Ballroom C Poster Fast Forwards Chair: Robert Kincaid & Cydney Nielsen StratomeX: Enabling Visualization-Driven Cancer Subtype Analysis, Alexander Lex, Marc Streit, Hans-Joerg Schulz, Christian Partl, Dieter Schmalstieg, Peter J. Park, Nils Gehlenborg Visualization and Exploration of 3D Toponome Data, Steffen Oeltze, Paul Klemm, Reyk Hillert, Bernhard Preim, Walter Schubert compreheNGSive: A Tool for Exploring Next-Gen Sequencing Variants, Alex Bigelow, Miriah Meyer, Nicola Camp MedSavant: Visual Analytics for Genetic Variation Datasets, Marc Fiume, Eric Smith, Andrew Brook, Michael Brudno 6:15pm - 7:30pm l Symposia Poster Session 2nd Floor Foyer 7:30pm - 9:30pm l Symposia Reception Grand Ballroom CD

11 Monday, 15 October

Full Day l Tutorial (2:00pm - 5:55pm) Grand Ballroom B Connecting the Dots – Showing Relationships in Data and l Tutorial (8:30am - 5:55pm) Grand Ballroom A Beyond

Uncertainty and Parameter Space Analysis in Visualization Contributors: Marc Streit, Hans-Jörg Schulz, Alexander Lex Contributors: Christoph Heinzl, Stefan Bruckner, M. Eduard Gröller, Alex T. Pang, Hans-Christian Hege, Kristi Potter, Rüdiger This tutorial discusses the visual expression of relationships in Westermann, Torsten Möller data, via a process we call linking. The three parts (what to link, how to link, and when to link) touch on interaction, perceptual Visualization of uncertainty is increasingly important for a grouping, and collaboration. wide range of scientific and engineering applications, in which domain specialists require methods for understanding the reli- 8:30am - 10:10am ability of original data and a pipeline of subsequent computa- tions. In the tutorial we describe the combination of uncertainty l BioVis Papers Grand Ballroom C visualization and parameter space analyses, which we believe Cellular Data is essential for the acceptance and applicability of future data Chair: Lars Linsen analysis methods. Cellular Data Primer Talk, Larry Hunter l Workshop (8:30am - 5:55pm) Willow AB mzRepeat: Visual Analysis of Lipids in Mass Spectrometry, Interactive Visual Text Analytics: Task-Driven Analysis of Social Shinichi Mukosaka, Kanae Teramoto, Hideki Koike Media Content Epithelial Cell Reconstruction and Visualization of the Developing Contributors: Eser Kandogan, Shixia Liu, John T. Stasko, Huahai Drosophila Wing Imaginal Disc, David Breen, Thomas Widmann, Yang, Michelle X. Zhou Linge Bai, Frank Julicher, Christian Dahmann The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and Similarity Analysis of Cell Movements in Video Microscopy, Jens practitioners interested in social media, text visualization, text Fangerau, Burkhard Höckendorf, Joachim Wittbrodt, Heike Leitte analytics, and visual analytics, to define the emerging field of Visualizing Cells and their Connectivity Graphs for CompuCell3D, visual text analysis of social media. We are particularly inter- Randy Heiland, Maciek Swat, James Sluka, Benjamin Zaitlen, ested in discussing tasks, techniques, and applications in differ- Abbas Shirinifard, Gilberto Thomas, Andrew Lumsdaine, James ent domains. In other words, we would like to establish a better Glazier understanding what major tasks that people aim to accomplish in using visual text analysis of social media and how different 8:45am - 10:10am tasks call for different text analytics and/or interactive visualiza- l tion techniques. LDAV Announcements, Grand Ballroom D Keynote, & Paper Fast Forward l Workshop (8:30am - 5:55pm) Redwood AB Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security Contributors: Dino Schweitzer, Daniel Quist, John Goodall 10:10am - 10:30am The International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security l Coffee Break (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the 10:30am - 12:10pm needs of the cyber security community through new and insight- l ful visualization techniques. Our focus is to explore effective, BioVis Papers Grand Ballroom C scalable visual interfaces for security domains, where visualiza- Biomolecular Data and Pathways tion may provide a distinct benefit, including computer foren- Chair: Kay Nieselt sics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, Biomolecular Data and Pathways Primer Talk, Igor Jurisica privacy, preventing ‘user assisted’ attacks, compliance manage- Dynamic Channels in Biomolecular Systems: Path Analysis ment, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing and Visualization, Norbert Lindow, Daniel Baum, Ana-Nicoleta in addition to traditional network security. Bondar, Hans-Christian Hege Uncertainty-Aware Visual Analysis of Biochemical Reaction Half Day Networks, Corinna Vehlow, Jan Hasenauer, Andrei Kramer, Julian l Tutorial (8:30am - 12:10pm) Grand Ballroom B Heinrich, Nicole Radde, Frank Allgoewer, Daniel Weiskopf Introduction to Data Visualization on the Web with D3.js enRoute: Dynamic Path Extraction from Biological Pathway Contributors: Scott Murray, Jeffrey Heer, Jérôme Cukier Maps for In-Depth Experimental Data Analysis, Christian Partl, D3.js is a powerful JavaScript-based tool for creating web-based, Alexander Lex, Marc Streit, Denis Kalkofen, Karl Kashofer, interactive data visualizations. Our D3.js tutorial is intended for Dieter Schmalstieg beginners familiar with basic visualization concepts, but with Implicit Surfaces for Interactive Graph Based Cavity Analysis of little or no experience with web development technologies such Molecular Simulations, Julius Parulek, Cagatay Turkay, Nathalie as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SVG. Reuter, Ivan Viola

12 VisWeek 2013 25th IEEE Visualization Conference 20th IEEE InfoVis Conference 9th IEEE VAST Conference l LDAV Papers Grand Ballroom D Visualization of Large Data Visual Analysis of Massive Web Session Data, Zeqian Shen Oct. 13 - 18, 2013 Gaussian Mixture Model Based Volume Visualization, Shusen Liu Atlanta, GA, USA Virtual Rheoscopic Fluids for Dense, Large-Scale Fluid Flow Visualization, Paul Navratil Meta Parallel Coordinates for Visualizing Features in Large, High- Dimensional, Time-Varying Data, Aritra Dasgupta Call for Participation Redirecting Research in Large-format Displays for Visualization, Kenneth Moreland VisWeek 2013 is the premier forum Early Deadlines: for advances in scientific and informa- (subject to slight 12:10pm - 2:00pm tion visualization. The event-packed changes) l Lunch Break week brings together researchers and February 2013 practitioners from academia, govern- Contest / Challenge 2:00pm - 3:40pm ment, and industry to explore their sample data released l BioVis Grand Ballroom C shared interests in tools, techniques, March 21, 2013 Paper Abstracts Contest and Community Session and technology. (Mandatory) l LDAV Papers Grand Ballroom D We invite you to participate in March 31, 2013 Foundational Techniques for Large Data IEEE Scientific Visualization, IEEE Full Paper submission Group Dynamics in Scientific Visualization, Sedat Ozer Information Visualization, and April 28, 2013 In-situ Fragment Detection at Scale, Nathan Fabian IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Tutorial Proposals Flow-guided File Layout for Out-of-core Pathline Computation, Technology by sharing your research, Workshop Proposals Chunming Chen insights, experience, and enthusiasm. Scalable Computation of Distributions from Large Scale Data Sets, Abon Chaudhuri In 2013, IEEE VisWeek comes to the city of Atlanta, Georgia, the Using NoSQL Databases for Streaming Network Analysis, Brian heart and high-tech center of the American south. Home to CNN Wylie and Coca-Cola, the spectacular Georgia Aquarium, and Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta is an exceptionally easy to reach national 3:40pm - 4:15pm and international airline hub. Visitors can discover the city’s history l Coffee Break from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement and experience a thriving cultural scene at the city’s many theatres, museums, 4:15pm - 4:45pm galleries, and family attractions. For more information please visit l LDAV Awards Ceremony: Grand Ballroom D Best Paper and Best Poster 4:15pm - 5:30pm www.visweek.org l BioVis Grand Ballroom C Follow @ieeevisweek to keep up with conference activities Challenges Session and announcements. Key Challenges with Genome & Population Data, Inna Dubchak Questions? Email [email protected] Key Challenges with Visualising Macromolecules, Valerie Daggett VIsWeek 2013 General Chair: 5:30pm - 5:55pm John T. Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology l BioVis Awards Ceremony & Grand Ballroom C Closing Remarks

13 Tuesday, 16 October

8:00am - 10:00am l InfoVis Papers Grand Ballroom C Evaluation and Methodology l VisWeek Welcome Grand Ballroom BCD Chair: Leland Wilkinson VisWeek Keynote: Lessons Learned Evaluating Two Decades of Novel Information Visualizations [Best Paper] How Capacity Limits of Attention Influence Speaker: Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research Information Visualization Effectiveness, Steve Haroz, David Whitney In this talk I will review the many number of ways my Different Strokes for Different Folks: Visual Presentation Design colleagues and I, especially Between Disciplines, Steven R. Gomez, Radu Jianu, Caroline George Robertson, have Ziemkiewicz, Hua Guo, David H. Laidlaw chosen to evaluate novel Does an Eye Tracker Tell the Truth about Visualizations?: information visualization Findings while Investigating Visualizations for Decision Making, designs and the lessons we Sung-Hee Kim, Zhihua Dong, Hanjun Xian, Benjavan Upatising, learned from them. Often, Ji Soo Yi paradigms borrowed from [Honorable Mention] Design Study Methodology: Reflections Psychology were pivotal in from the Trenches and the Stacks, Michael Sedlmair, Miriah discovering breakthroughs Meyer, Tamara Munzner in our designs and guided Graphical Tests for Power Comparison of Competing Designs, us forward in our research. Heike Hofmann, Lendie Follett, Mahbubul Majumder, In addition, controlling for various variables such as gender, Dianne Cook spatial ability, visualization ability, computer experience or gameplay made a huge difference in our findings and subse- l SciVis Special Session Grand Ballroom D quent explorations. I will begin by giving an overview of many Four Views on Visualization in Science and Education of our early experiments and then provide a more recent over- Chair: Russell M. Taylor II view of information visualization research currently ongoing at Scientific visualization is by its very nature driven by the needs Microsoft Research. Finally, I will close with new, on body and of collaborators in the sciences who have data sets and the need automated methods for tracking emotion, such as frustration, to understand and to clearly and concisely describe them. The interest and engagement that might provide a new, useful direc- best collaborations drive research in both the domain science tion for information visualization research. and visualization, with buy-in from both teams. This venue provides an opportunity for the visualization community to hear from and interact with four practicing scientists and educators 10:00am - 10:20am who use visualization in their work and who are looking for visualization help with future projects. Each is involved in suc- l VisWeek Papers Fast Forward Grand Ballroom C cessful collaborations with visualization researchers and brings a unique perspective on what visualization means to them. Each 10:20am - 10:30am of them will give examples of how visualization has been helpful to them in the past and a description of the kind of data sets and l Coffee Break questions they deal with in their field. Together, this provides a cross-sectional view of what it looks like to be part of such col- 10:30am - 12:10pm laborations from the viewpoint of the domain scientist. l VAST Papers Grand Ballroom B Clustering, Classification, and Correlation 12:10pm - 2:00pm Chair: Daniel Weiskopf l Lunch Break Visual Cluster Exploration of Web Clickstream Data, Jishang Wei, l Compass: Industry Lunch 2nd Floor Foyer Zeqian Shen, Neel Sundaresan, Kwan-Liu Ma An Adaptive Parameter Space-Filling Algorithm for Highly 2:00pm - 3:40pm Interactive Cluster Exploration, Zafar Ahmed, Chris Weaver l VAST Papers Grand Ballroom B Inter-Active Learning of Ad-Hoc Classifiers for Video Visual Text and Categorical Data Analysis Analytics, Benjamin Höferlin, Rudolf Netzel, Markus Höferlin, Chair: David S. Ebert Daniel Weiskopf, Gunther Heidemann [TVCG] Visual Classifier Training for Text Document Retrieval, [TVCG] Scatter/Gather Clustering: Flexibly Incorporating User Florian Heimerl, Steffen Koch, Harald Bosch, Thomas Ertl Feedback to Steer Clustering Results, M. Shahriar Hossain, Praveen Kumar Reddy Ojili, Cindy Grimm, Rolf Müller, Layne T. LeadLine: Interactive Visual Analysis of Text Data through Event Watson, Naren Ramakrishnan Identification and Exploration, Wenwen Dou, Xiaoyu Wang, Drew Skau, William Ribarsky, Michelle Zhou A Correlative Analysis Process in a Visual Analytics Environment, Abish Malik, Ross Maciejewski, Yun Jang, Whitney Huang, Niklas Relative N-Gram Signatures: Document Visualization at the Elmqvist, David S. Ebert Level of Character N-Grams, Magdalena Jankowska, Vlado Keselj, Evangelos Milios [TVCG] [Honorable Mention] Reinventing the Contingency Wheel: Scalable Visual Analytics of Large Categorical Data, Bilal Alsallakh, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, M. Eduard Gröller 14 The Deshredder: A Visual Analytic Approach to Reconstructing Shredded Documents, Patrick Butler, Prithwish Chakraborty, Naren Ramakrishnan l InfoVis Papers Grand Ballroom C Graphs and Networks Chair: Nathalie Henry Riche A User Study on Curved Edges in Graph Visualization, Kai Xu, Chris Rooney, Peter Passmore, Dong-Han Ham, Phong H. Nguyen Compressed Adjacency Matrices: Untangling Gene Regulatory Networks, Kasper Dinkla, Michel A. Westenberg, Jarke J. van Wijk Visualizing Network Traffic to Understand the Performance of Massively Parallel Simulations, Aaditya G. Landge, Joshua A. Levine, Katherine E. Isaacs, Abhinav Bhatele, Todd Gamblin, Martin Schulz, Steve H. Langer, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci Memorability of Visual Features in Network Diagrams, Kim Marriott, Helen Purchase, Michael Wybrow, Cagatay Goncu Interactive Level-of-Detail Rendering of Large Graphs, Michael Zinsmaier, Ulrik Brandes, Oliver Deussen, Hendrik Strobelt Subspace Search and Visualization to Make Sense of Alternative Clusterings in High-Dimensional Data, Andrada Tatu, Fabian l SciVis Papers Grand Ballroom D Maaß, Ines Färber, Enrico Bertini, Tobias Schreck, Thomas Seidl, Evaluation Daniel Keim Chair: Dan Keefe Just-in-Time Annotation of Clusters, Outliers, and Trends in Point- Evaluation of Fast-Forward Video Visualization, Markus Höferlin, Based Data Visualizations, Eser Kandogan Kuno Kurzhals, Benjamin Höferlin, Gunther Heidemann, Daniel Weiskopf Dis-Function: Learning Distance Functions Interactively, Eli T. Brown, Jingjing Liu, Carla E. Brodley, Remco Chang Human Computation in Visualization: Using Purpose Driven Games for Robust Evaluation of Visualization Algorithms, Nafees l InfoVis Papers Grand Ballroom C Ahmed, Ziyi Zheng, Klaus Mueller Representation and Perception Evaluation of Multivariate Visualization on a Multivariate Task, Chair:Enrico Bertini Mark A. Livingston, Jonathan W. Decker, Zhuming Ai [Honorable Mention] Visual Semiotics & Uncertainty A Data-Driven Approach to Hue-Preserving Color-Blending, Visualization: An Empirical Study, Alan M. MacEachren, Robert Lars Kühne, Joachim Giesen, Zhiyuan Zhang, Sungsoo Ha, E. Roth, James O’Brien, Bonan Li, Derek Swingley, Mark Gahegan Klaus Mueller Comparing Clusterings Using Bertin’s Idea, Alexander Pilhöfer, Effects of Stereo and Screen Size on the Legibility of Three- Alexander Gribov, Antony Unwin Dimensional Streamtube Visualization, Jian Chen, Haipeng Cai, Perception of Visual Variables on Tiled Wall-Sized Displays for Alexander P. Auchus, David H. Laidlaw Information Visualization Applications, Anastasia Bezerianos, Petra Isenberg 2:00pm - 5:55pm Visualizing Flow of Uncertainty through Analytical Processes, l Tutorial Willow AB Yingcai Wu, Guo-Xun Yuan, Kwan-Liu Ma Good Practice of Visual Communication Design in Scientific and [Honorable Mention] Assessing the Effect of Visualizations on Data Visualization Bayesian Reasoning Through Crowdsourcing, Luana Micallef, Chair: Marek Kultys Pierre Dragicevic, Jean-Daniel Fekete Graphic design is a broad discipline of organizing visual com- l SciVis Invited Papers Grand Ballroom D munication in a meaningful, accessible and engaging way. In TVCG on Volume Visualization this interdisciplinary tutorial the students will learn the basics Chair: Deborah Silver of good graphic design practice necessary to create legible, clear and engaging scientific/data visualizations that make an impact. A Versatile Optical Model for Hybrid Rendering of Volume Data, Fei Yang, Qingde Li, Dehui Xiang, Yong Cao, Jie Tian 3:40pm - 4:15pm Unified Boundary-Aware Texturing for Interactive Volume Rendering, Timo Ropinski, Stefan Diepenbrock, Stefan Bruckner, l Coffee Break Klaus Hinrichs, M. Eduard Gröller Parallel Computation of 2D Morse-Smale Complexes, Nithin 4:15pm - 5:55pm Shivashankar, Senthilnathan Maadaswamy, Vijay Natarajan l VAST Papers Grand Ballroom B Computing Reeb Graphs as a Union of Contour Trees, Harish Visual-Computational Analysis of Multivariate Data Doraiswamy, Vijay Natarajan Chair: Jean-Daniel Fekete Multimodal Data Fusion Based on Mutual Information, Roger Visual Pattern Discovery using Random Projections, Anushka Bramon, Imma Boada, Anton Bardera, Joaquim Rodríguez, Anand, Leland Wilkinson, Tuan Nhon Dang Miquel Feixas, Josep Puig, Mateu Sbert iLAMP: Exploring High-Dimensional Spacing Through Backward Multidimensional Projection, Elisa Portes dos Santos Amorim, 6:00pm - 6:45pm Emilio Vital Brazil, Joel Daniel II, Paulo Joia, Luis Gustavo Nonato, l VisWeek Posters Fast Forward Grand Ballroom C Mario Costa Sousa

15 Wednesday, 17 October

Lagrangian Coherent Structures for Design Analysis of Revolving 8:00am - 8:30am Doors, Benjamin Schindler, Raphael Fuchs, Stefan Barp, Jürgen l VisWeek Papers Fast Forward Grand Ballroom C Waser, Armin Pobitzer, Robert Carnecky, Krešimir Matković, Ronald Peikert 8:30am - 10:10am Turbulence Visualization at the Terascale on Desktop PCs, Marc Treib, Kai Bürger, Florian Reichl, Charles Meneveau, Alex Szalay, l VisWeek Industry Presentations: Willow AB Rüdiger Westermann

A View for the Future Automatic Detection and Visualization of Qualitative Contributors: Frank van Ham, Researcher at IBM Netherlands, Hemodynamic Characteristics in Cerebral Aneurysms, Rocco John David Miller, Principal Engineer at Intel, Will Schroeder, Gasteiger, Dirk J. Lehmann, Roy van Pelt, Gábor Janiga, Oliver CEO Kitware Beuing, Anna Vilanova, Holger Theisel, Bernhard Preim Senior researchers from major players in the commercial visualization space discuss their vision of the next few years of 10:10am - 10:30am information, data, and scientific visualization. Hear an industry perspective on important issues, upcoming challenges, and their l Coffee Break visions for the future of visualization.

l VAST Papers Grand Ballroom B 10:30am - 12:10pm Sensemaking and Collaboration l Panel Willow AB Chair: Niklas Elmqvist Global Challenges in Financial Systemic Risk Analysis: Defining [TVCG] An Affordance-Based Framework for Human Visual Analytics Solutions Computation and Human-Computer Collaboration, R. Jordan Panelists: V. Lemieux, David S. Ebert, Brian Fisher, Mark Flood, Crouser, Remco Chang Daniel Keim, Marcus Lem, William Wong [TVCG] Examining the Use of a Visual Analytics System for The financial crisis of 2007-2009 exposed the complexity of the Sensemaking Tasks: Case Studies with Domain Experts, Youn-ah global financial system. This panel will explore the use of Visual Kang, John T. Stasko Analytics in analyzing financial systemic risk. [TVCG] Semantic Interaction for Sensemaking: Inferring l VAST Special Session Grand Ballroom B Analytical Reasoning for Model Steering, Alex Endert, Patrick Visual Analytics in Practice Fiaux, Chris North Chair: Jonathan C. Roberts Analyst’s Workspace: An Embodied Sensemaking Environment Jason Alcock, from Appature, who will talk about visualization in for Large, High Resolution Displays, Christopher Andrews, the context of medical marketing. Jonathan A. Schwabish, from Chris North the Congressional Budget Office, talking about visualization for SocialNetSense: Supporting Sensemaking of Social and government. Kevin Lynagh, from Kerning Labs, talking about Structural Features in Networks with Interactive Visualization, commercial visualization. Shahtab Wahid, from Bloomberg, Liang Gou, Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, Airong Luo, Patricia Anderson talking about data analytics for stock traders. l InfoVis Papers Grand Ballroom C l InfoVis Papers Grand Ballroom C Space and Maps Design Spaces Chair: Tobias Isenberg Chair: Tamara Munzner Organizing Search Results with a Reference Map, Arlind Nocaj, Capturing the Design Space of Sequential Space-Filling Layouts, Ulrik Brandes Thomas Baudel, Bertjan Broeksema Spatial Text Visualization Using Automatic Typographic Maps, Taxonomy-Based Glyph Design—with a Case Study on Shehzad Afzal, Ross Maciejewski, Yun Jang, Niklas Elmqvist, Visualizing Workflows of Biological Experiments, Eamonn David S. Ebert Maguire, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Jim Stacking-Based Visualization of Trajectory Attribute Data, Davies, Min Chen Christian Tominski, Heidrun Schumann, Gennady Andrienko, An Empirical Model of Slope Ratio Comparisons, Justin Talbot, Natalia Andrienko John Gerth, Pat Hanrahan Adaptive Composite Map Projections, Bernhard Jenny Representative Factor Generation for the Interactive Visual Algorithms for Labeling Focus Regions, Martin Fink, Jan-Henrik Analysis of High-Dimensional Data, Cagatay Turkay, Arvid Haunert, André Schulz, Joachim Spoerhase, Alexander Wolff Lundervold, Astri Johansen Lundervold, Helwig Hauser Graphical Overlays: Using Layered Elements to Aid Chart l SciVis Papers Grand Ballroom D Reading, Nicholas Kong, Maneesh Agrawala Flow and Turbulence Chair: Eugene Zhang l SciVis Papers Grand Ballroom D Analysis of Streamline Separation at Infinity Using Time-Discrete Volume Data Handling Markov Chains, Wieland Reich, Gerik Scheuermann Chair: Chaoli Wang Derived Metric Tensors for Flow Surface Visualization, Harald [Honorable Mention] Interactive Volume Exploration of Obermaier, Kenneth I. Joy Petascale Microscopy Data Streams Using a Visualization-Driven Virtual Memory Approach, Markus Hadwiger, Johanna Beyer, Won-Ki Jeong, Hanspeter Pfister

16 An Adaptive Prediction-Based Approach to Lossless Compression of Floating-Point Volume Data, Nathaniel Fout, Kwan-Liu Ma 4:15pm - 5:55pm l On the Interpolation of Data with Normally Distributed InfoVis Invited Papers Grand Ballroom C Uncertainty for Visualization, Steven Schlegel, Nico Korn, TVCG on Information Visualization Gerik Scheuermann Chair: Stephen North Coherency-Based Curve Compression for High-Order Finite Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios, Element Model Visualization, Alexander Bock, Erik Sundén, Heidi Lam, Enrico Bertini, Petra Isenberg, Catherine Plaisant, Bingchen Liu, Burkhard Wünsche, Timo Ropinski Sheelagh Carpendale ElVis: A System for the Accurate and Interactive Visualization Enhanced Spatial Stability with Hilbert and Moore Treemaps, of High-Order Finite Element Solutions, Blake Nelson, Eric Liu, Susanne Tak, Andy Cockburn Robert Haimes, Robert M. Kirby LineAO - Improved Three-Dimensional Line Rendering, Sebastian Eichelbaum, Mario Hlawitschka, Gerik Scheuermann 12:10pm - 2:00pm Using Patterns to Encode Color Information for Dichromats, Behzad Sajadi, Aditi Majumder, Manuel M. Oliveira, Rosália G. l Lunch Break Schneider, Ramesh Raskar l Compass: Mentors’ Lunch 2nd Floor Foyer Toward Visualization for Games: Theory, Design Space, and Patterns, Brian Bowman, Niklas Elmqvist, T.J. Jankun-Kelly 2:00pm - 3:40pm l SciVis Papers Grand Ballroom D l Panel Grand Ballroom C Topology and Fields Reproducible Visualization Research: How Do We Get There? Chair: Georgeta-Elisabeta Marai Panelists: Juliana Freire, Gordon Kindlmann, Tamara Munzner, Generalized Topological Simplification of Scalar Fields on Tim Dwyer Surfaces, Julien Tierny, Valerio Pascucci Science relies on the reproducible. But visualization research is Computing Morse-Smale Complexes with Accurate Geometry, often hard to reproduce, and there is a drive in other areas of Attila Gyulassy, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci computational science to improve the reproducibility of research. Visualization of Temporal Similarity in Field Data, Steffen Frey, What changes are needed to visualization research to assure Filip Sadlo, Thomas Ertl greater reproducibility? Visualizing Nuclear Scission Through a Multifield Extension of l SciVis Papers Grand Ballroom D Topological Analysis, David Duke, Hamish Carr, Aaron Knoll, Interaction and Rendering Nicolas Schunck, Hai Ah Nam, Andrzej Staszczak Chair: Xiaoyu Wang Augmented Topological Descriptors of Pore Networks for WYSIWYP: What You See Is What You Pick, Alexander Wiebel, Material Science, Daniela M. Ushizima, Dmitriy Morozov, Gunther Frans M. Vos, David Foerster, Hans-Christian Hege H. Weber, Andrea G.C. Bianchi, James A. Sethian, E. Wes Bethel [Honorable Mention] Efficient Structure-Aware Selection Techniques for 3D Point Cloud Visualizations with 2DOF Input, 6:15pm - 7:30pm Lingyun Yu, Konstantinos Efstathiou, Petra Isenberg, Tobias l VisWeek Poster Viewing Grand Ballroom A Isenberg Sketching Uncertainty into Simulations, Hrvoje Ribičić, Jürgen Waser, Roman Gurbat, Bernhard Sadransky, M. Eduard Gröller 7:30pm - 9:30pm A Perceptual-Statistics Shading Model, Veronika Šoltészová, l VisWeek Reception Grand Ballroom BCD

Cagatay Turkay, Mark C. Price, Ivan Viola Art Show Opening Visual Steering and Verification of Mass Spectrometry Data Factorization in Air Quality Research, Daniel Engel, Klaus Greff, Christoph Garth, Keith Bein, Anthony Wexler, Bernd Hamann, Hans Hagen 2:00pm - 5:55pm l Workshop Grand Ballroom B Visual Analytics in Healthcare - Open Health Data Chair: Jesus J. Caban, David Gotz l Tutorial Willow AB Color Theory Methods for Visualization Chair: Theresa-Marie Rhyne We highlight the usage of various color theory methods and tools for creating effective visualizations and visual analytics. This hands-on session will describe examples of colormaps in a different application areas, and teach how to build and evaluate color schemes with a variety of online tools and mobile apps. 3:40pm - 4:15pm l Coffee Break

17 Thursday, 18 October

[Invited TVCG] Integrating Isosurface Statistics and Histograms, 8:00am - 8:30am Brian Duffy, Hamish Carr, Torsten Möller l VisWeek Papers Fast Forward Grand Ballroom C [Invited TVCG] ViSizer: A Visualization Resizing Framework, Yingcai Wu, Xiaotong Liu, Shixia Liu, Kwan-Liu Ma 8:30am - 12:10pm [Invited TVCG] TripAdvisorN-D: A Tourism-Inspired High- Dimensional Space Exploration Framework with Overview and l Workshop Willow AB Detail, Julia EunJu Nam, Klaus Mueller Scheherazade’s Toolbox: Artists Meet Visualization Chair: Francesca Samsel 10:10am - 10:30am This workshop will explore the artist’s toolbox, and open discus- l Coffee Break sion to which tools might be put to use. The goal of this workshop is to tap into the participating artist’s expertise and discuss how to effectively employ their tools while maintaining the 10:30am - 12:10pm integrity of the visualization and the science. l VAST Papers Grand Ballroom B 8:30am - 10:10am Applications,Design Studies, and Tools Chair: Enrico Bertini l VAST Papers Grand Ballroom B [TVCG] [Best Paper] Visual Analytics Methodology for Eye Space and Time + The Analysis Process Movement Studies, Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Chair: Bill Ribarsky + Brian Fisher Michael Burch, Daniel Weiskopf [TVCG] A Visual Analytics Approach to Multi-scale Exploration Spatiotemporal Social Media Analytics for Abnormal Event of Environmental Time Series, Mike Sips, Patrick Köthur, Andrea Detection using Seasonal-Trend Decomposition, Junghoon Unger, Hans-Christian Hege, Doris Dransch Chae, Dennis Thom, Harald Bosch, Yun Jang, Ross Maciejewski, Visual Analytics Methods for Categoric Spatio-Temporal Data, David S. Ebert, Thomas Ertl Tatiana von Landesberger, Sebastian Bremm, Natalia Andrienko, AlVis: Situation Awareness in the Surveillance of Road Tunnels, Gennady Andrienko, Maria Tekusova Harald Piringer, Matthias Buchetics, Rudolf Benedik Watch This: A Taxonomy for Dynamic Data Visualization, Joseph Smart Super Views—A Knowledge-Assisted Interface for Medical Cottam, Andrew Lumsdaine, Chris Weaver Visualization, Gabriel Mistelbauer, Hamed Bouzari, Rüdiger [TVCG] The User Puzzle - Explaining the Interaction with Visual Schernthaner, Ivan Baclija, Arnold Köchl, Stefan Bruckner, Milos Analytics Systems, Margit Pohl, Michael Smuc, Eva Mayr Sramek, M. Eduard Gröller [TVCG] [Honorable Mention] Enterprise Data Analysis and Visual Analytics for the Big Data Era—A Comparative Review Visualization: An Interview Study, Sean Kandel, Andreas of State-of-the-Art Commercial Systems, Leishi zhang, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer Stoffel, Michael Behrisch, Sebastian Mittelstädt, Tobias Schreck, René Pompl, Stefan Hagen Weber, Holger Last, Daniel Keim l InfoVis Papers Grand Ballroom C Interaction l InfoVis Special Session Grand Ballroom C Chair: Miriah Meyer Tales from the Trenches Beyond Mouse and Keyboard: Expanding Design Considerations Chair: Frank van Ham for Information Visualization Interactions, Bongshin Lee, Petra Jon Hopson, from Bungie, who will talk about game player visu- Isenberg, Nathalie Henry Riche, Sheelagh Carpendale alization based on telemetry and other data sources. Kim Rees, Intelligent Graph Layout Using Many Users’ Input, Xiaoru Yuan, from Periscopic, who will talk about building visualizations for Limei Che, Yifan Hu, Xin Zhang non-profits. Lori Williams, from Tableau, who will talk about visualizing how users use a popular piece of desktop/web soft- PivotPaths: Strolling through Faceted Information Spaces, ware (Tableau Public.) Peter Speyer, from the Institute for Health Marian Dörk, Nathalie Henry Riche, Gonzalo Ramos, Metrics and Evaluation, who will talk about visualizing health Susan Dumais information. Interaction Support for Visual Comparison Inspired by Natural Behavior, Christian Tominski, Camilla Forsell, Jimmy Johansson l SciVis Papers Grand Ballroom D RelEx: Visualization for Actively Changing Overlay Network Volume Rendering Specifications, Michael Sedlmair, Annika Frank, Tamara Munzner, Chair: Carlos Correa Andreas Butz Fuzzy Volume Rendering, Nathaniel Fout, Kwan-Liu Ma Automatic Tuning of Spatially Varying Transfer Functions for l SciVis Papers Grand Ballroom D Blood Vessel Visualization, Gunnar Läthén, Stefan Lindholm, Analytics Reiner Lenz, Anders Persson, Magnus Borga Chair: Helwig Hauser [Best Paper] Hierarchical Exploration of Volumes Using Multivariate Data Analysis Using Persistence-Based Filtering Multilevel Segmentation of the Intensity-Gradient Histograms, and Topological Signatures, Bastian Rieck, Hubert Mara, Cheuk Yiu Ip, Amitabh Varshney, Joseph JaJa Heike Leitte Historygrams: Enabling Interactive Global Illumination in Direct Surface-Based Structure Analysis and Visualization for Multifield Volume Rendering using Photon Mapping, Daniel Jönsson, Joel Time-Varying Datasets, Samer S. Barakat, Markus Rütten, Kronander, Timo Ropinski, Anders Ynnerman Xavier Tricoche Structure-Aware Lighting Design for Volume Visualization, Yubo 18 Tao, Hai Lin, Feng Dong, Chao Wang, Gordon Clapworthy, Hujun Bao 12:10pm - 2:00pm 4:15pm - 5:55pm l Lunch Break; Feedback Session: Open to all Grand Ballroom B l VAST Invited Papers Grand Ballroom B TVCG on Visual Analytics 2:00pm - 3:40pm Chair: Silvia Miksch Evaluating the Role of Time in Investigative Analysis of Document l Panel Grand Ballroom B Collections, Bum chul Kwon, Waqas Javed, Sohaib Ghani, Niklas Quality of Visualization: The Bake Off Elmqvist, Ji Soo Yi, David S. Ebert Panelists: Min Chen, Kelly Gaither, M. Eduard Gröller, Penny Coherent Time-Varying Graph Drawing with MultiFocus+Context Rheingans, Matthew O. Ward Interaction, Kun-Chuan Feng, Chaoli Wang, Han-Wei Shen, What does “quality” mean when discussing visualization? Tong-Yee Lee Algorithmic quality? Empirical studies? Measurements of TimeSeer: Scagnostics for High-Dimensional Time Series, Tuan quality? Real-world users? All or none of the above? Dang, Anushka Anand, Leland Wilkinson l InfoVis Papers Grand Ballroom C Simplification of Node Position Data for Interactive Visualization Text and Time of Dynamic Datasets, Paul Rosen, Voicu Popescu Chair: Melanie Tory Visualization and Visual Analysis of Multi-faceted Scientific Facilitating Discourse Analysis with Interactive Visualization, Jian Data: a Survey, Johannes Kehrer, Helwig Hauser Zhao, Fanny Chevalier, Christopher Collins, Ravin Balakrishnan l InfoVis Papers Grand Ballroom C Whisper: Tracing the Spatiotemporal Process of Information Sketching and Designing Visualizations Diffusion in Real Time, Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, Xiaohua Sun, David Chair: Caroline Ziemkiewicz Lazer, Shixia Liu, Huamin Qu Evaluating the Effect of Style in Information Visualization, Exploring Flow, Factors, and Outcomes of Temporal Andrew Vande Moere, Martin Tomitsch, Christoph Wimmer, Event Sequences with the Outflow Visualization, Krist Christoph Boesch, Thomas Grechenig Wongsuphasawat, David Gotz Sketchy Rendering for Information Visualization, Jo Wood, RankExplorer: Visualization of Ranking Changes in Large Time Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg, Jason Dykes, Nadia Boukhelifa, Series Data, Conglei Shi, Weiwei Cui, Shixia Liu, Panpan Xu, Wei Aidan Slingsby Chen, Huamin Qu An Empirical Study on Using Visual Embellishments in Design Considerations for Optimizing Storyline Visualizations, Visualization, Rita Borgo, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Farhan Mohamed, Yuzuru Tanahashi, Kwan-Liu Ma Philip W. Grant, Irene Reppa, Luciano Floridi, Min Chen l SciVis Papers Grand Ballroom D Evaluating Sketchiness as a Visual Variable for the Depiction of Geo Applications Qualitative Uncertainty, Nadia Boukhelifa, Anastasia Bezerianos, Chair: Jens Krüger Tobias Isenberg, Jean-Daniel Fekete Visualization of Astronomical Nebulae via Distributed Multi- Understanding Pen and Touch Interaction for Data Exploration GPU Compressed Sensing Tomography, Stephan Wenger, Marco on Interactive Whiteboards, Jagoda Walny, Bongshin Lee, Paul Ament, Stefan Guthe, Dirk Lorenz, Andreas Tillmann, Daniel Johns, Nathalie Henry Riche, Sheelagh Carpendale Weiskopf, Marcus Magnor l SciVis Papers Grand Ballroom D Visualization of Flow Behavior in Earth Mantle Convection, Physical Science Applications Simon Schröder, John A. Peterson, Harald Obermaier, Louise H. Chair: Heike Leitte Kellogg, Kenneth I. Joy, Hans Hagen KnotPad: Visualizing and Exploring Knot Theory with Fluid Interactive Retro-Deformation of Terrain for Reconstructing 3D Reidemeister Moves, Hui Zhang, Jianguang Weng, Lin Jing, Fault Displacements, Rolf Westerteiger, Tracy Compton, Tony Yiwen Zhong Bernardin, Eric Cowgill, Klaus Gwinner, Bernd Hamann, Andreas Gerndt, Hans Hagen Visualization of Electrostatic Dipoles in Molecular Dynamics of Metal Oxides, Sebastian Grottel, Philipp Beck, Christoph Müller, A Visual Analysis Concept for the Validation of Geoscientific Guido Reina, Johannes Roth, Hans-Rainer Trebin, Thomas Ertl Simulation Models, Andrea Unger, Sven Schulte, Volker Klemann, Doris Dransch Cumulative Heat Diffusion Using Volume Gradient Operator for Volume Analysis, Krishna Chaitanya Gurijala, Lei Wang, SeiVis: An Interactive Visual Subsurface Modeling Application, Arie Kaufman Thomas Höllt, Wolfgang Freiler, Fritz M. Gschwantner, Helmut Doleisch, Gabor Heinemann, Markus Hadwiger A Novel Approach to Visualizing Dark Matter Simulations, Ralf Kaehler, Oliver Hahn, Tom Abel 2:00pm - 5:55pm Visual Data Analysis as an Integral Part of Environmental Management, Joerg Meyer, E. Wes Bethel, Jennifer L. Horsman, l Tutorial Willow AB Susan S. Hubbard, Harinarayan Krishnan, Alexandru Romosan,

Interactive Visual Analysis of Scientific Data Elizabeth H. Keating, Laura Monroe, Richard Strelitz, Phil Moore, Chairs: Steffen Oeltze, Helmut Doleisch, Helwig Hauser, Glenn Taylor, Ben Torkian, Timothy C. Johnson, Ian Gorton Gunther Weber Interactive visual analysis (IVA) comprises concepts and techniques 6:00pm - 6:30pm for a user-guided knowledge discovery in data with complex spatiotemporal, multi-variate, multi-modal, or multi-run/ensemble l SciVis Contest Grand Ballroom D properties. In this tutorial, we discuss examples for successful applications of IVA to scientific data from various fields: automo- 6:00pm - 8:00pm tive engineering, climate research, biology, and medicine. l Compass: Meet the Candidate 2nd Floor Foyer 3:40pm - 4:15pm l Coffee Break 19 Friday, 19 October

8:00am - 8:30am l InfoVis Papers Grand Ballroom C Education and Popular Applications l VisWeek Papers Fast Forward Grand Ballroom C Chair: Danyel Fisher The DeepTree Exhibit: Visualizing the Tree of Life to Facilitate 8:30am - 10:10am Informal Learning, Florian Block, Michael S. Horn, Brenda Caldwell Phillips, Judy Diamond, E. Margaret Evans, Chia Shen l Panel Grand Ballroom B Balancing Personal and Professional Life as a Visualization Living Liquid: Design and Evaluation of an Exploratory Scientist Visualization Tool for Museum Visitors, Joyce Ma, Isaac Liao, Panelists: Robert S. Laramee, Robert M. Kirby, Robert J. Moorhead, Kwan-Liu Ma, Jennifer Frazier Klaus Mueller, Melanie Tory, Daniel Weiskopf Visualizing Student Histories Using Clustering and Composition, Balancing personal and professional lives is a task we all grapple David Trimm, Penny Rheingans, Marie desJardins with. How do scientists in visualization achieve this, and how SnapShot: Visualization to Propel Ice Hockey Analytics, Hannah does the nature of the field interact with the work and academic Pileggi, Charles D. Stolper, J. Michael Boyle, John T. Stasko environment and the personal lives of its practitioners? l SciVis Invited Papers Grand Ballroom D TVCG on Flow Visualization Chair: Hans Hagen Mesh-Driven Vector Field Clustering and Visualization: An Image-Based Approach, Zhenmin Peng, Edward Grundy, Doctoral Robert S. Laramee, Guoning Chen, T. Nick Croft Hierarchical Streamline Bundles, Hongfeng Yu, Chaoli Wang, Ching-Kuang Shene, Jacqueline H. Chen Colloquium Efficient Computation of Combinatorial Feature Flow Fields, Jan Reininghaus, Jens Kasten, Tino Weinkauf, Ingrid Hotz A Time-Dependent Vector Field Topology Based on Streak 2013 Surfaces, Markus Üffinger, Filip Sadlo, Thomas Ertl Robust Morse Decompositions of Piecewise Constant Vector CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Fields, Andrzej Szymczak, Eugene Zhang

VisWeek 2013 will host a Doctoral Colloquium to 10:10am - 10:30am support the next generation of visualization researchers. l Coffee Break Ph.D. students at any stage of their research are invited to apply to participate in the colloquium. Students who 10:30am - 12:30pm will be completing their proposal defense near the l VisWeek Closing Grand Ballroom BCD time of the colloquium are particularly encouraged to Capstone Speaker: Help Me See! Some Thoughts From a apply. It will incorporate contributions from the visual- Potential User ization, information visualization, and visual analytics Speaker: Felice C. Frankel, MIT Research Scientist student communities. What you are doing is critical and, in fact, your role is more important than ever in this age of massive data. I desperately Colloquium participation will offer students insight and want to use your work, but sometimes I just cannot seem to support for the framing of their research and will help wrap my head around them create important relationships. Financial support what you are showing–– may be available to participants to assist in traveling to even if it really looks the conference. cool. Cool doesn’t cut it for me. This talk will The colloquium will be run as a single day invitation- give examples from my only event at the beginning of IEEE VisWeek. own successes and fail- Questions? Email [email protected] ures in photography and graphics and suggest, with a little imagination and open minds, there might be some lessons learned from my own commitment to delving into and communicating information.

20 VisWeek Posters & Contests

SciVis Posters Animated Transitions and Navigation in Dynamic Networks, Feature Sensitive Isosurface Extraction from Gradient Data, Benjamin Bach, Emmanuel Pietriga, Jean-Daniel Fekete Arindam Bhattacharya, Rephael Wenger Facettice: Integrating Faceted Navigation and Concept Lattices An Extensible Framework for Modeling Simplicial Complexes, for Visual Data Exploration, Benjamin Bach, Jan Polowinski, David Canino, Leila De Floriani Dietrich Kammer [Best Poster] Exploring Flow Fields Using Fractal Analysis of The Effect of Information Visualization Delivery on Narrative Field Lines, Abon Chaudhuri, Teng-Yok Lee, Han-Wei Shen, Marc Construction and Development, Donia Badawood, Jo Wood Khoury, Rephael Wenger Clustering Large Image Collections through Pixel Descriptors, Dimension-Independent Simplification and Multi-Resolution Tuan Dang, Leland Wilkinson Representation of Morse Complexes, Lidija Comic, Leila De A Design, Analysis and Evaluation Model to Support the Floriani, Federico Iuricich Visualization Designer-User, Iain Dillingham, Jason Dykes, Arrangement of Product Data in CAVE systems, Elisabeth Dittrich, Jo Wood Johann Habakuk Israel Visualizing Book Similarity as Topographic Map, Martin Recent Advances in the Equalizer Parallel Rendering Framework, Gronemann, Michael Jünger Stefan Eilemann ProxiViz: an Interactive Visualization Technique to Overcome Exploring Vector Fields with Distribution-based Streamline Multidimensional Scaling Artifacts, Nicolas Heulot, Michaäl Analysis, Kewei Lu, Abon Chaudhuri, Teng-Yok Lee, Alexander G. Aupetit, Jean-Daniel Fekete Suttmiller, Han-Wei Shen, Pak Chung Wong [Best Poster] Towards Visual Sedimentation, Samuel Huron, A Novel Method for Tracking Tensor-based Regions of Interest Romain Vuillemot, Jean-Daniel Fekete in Large-Scale, Spatially-Dense Turbulent Combustion Data, Investigating Physical Visualizations, Yvonne Jansen, Pierre Timothy Luciani, Adrian Maries, Hoang Tran, Levent Yilmaz, Dragicevic, Jean-Daniel Fekete Mehdi Nik A New Radial Space-Filling Visualization Approach for Planar st- [Honorable Mention] Whole-Brain Vascular Reconstruction, Graphs, Ilir Jusufi, Andreas Kerren, Yuanmao Yuanmao Simulation, and Visualization, Thomas Marrinan, Ian Gould, Comparing Interactive Web-Based Visualization Rendering Chih-Yang Hsu, Andreas Linninger Techniques, Daniel E. Kee, Liz Salowitz, Remco Chang [Honorable Mention] VisNEST - Interactive Analysis of Neural Interactive Word Cloud Rendering with Semantic Zooming, Activity Data, Christian Nowke, Bernd Hentschel, Torsten Kuhlen, Xiaotong Liu, Kang-Che Lee, Teng-Yok Lee, Han-Wei Shen Jochen Eppler, Sacha van Albada, Rembrandt Bakker, Markus Diesmann, Maximilian Schmidt Practical Web Based Visualization for Comparative Energy Usage Analysis, Christopher Maness, Chad Steed, Olufemi Omitaomu Query-driven Analysis of Plasma-based Particle Acceleration Data, Oliver Rübel, Cameron G.R. Geddes, Min Chen, Estelle The Beatles Genome Project: Cluster Analysis and Visualization Cormier-Michel, E. Wes Bethel of Popular Music, Douglas Mason Tensor Approximation Properties for Multiresolution and Visualization Technique of Gene Network and Ontology Multiscale Volume Visualization, Susanne K. Suter, Renato Applying Edge Bundling, Rina Nakazawa, Takayuki Itoh, Jun Sese, Pajarola Aika Terada Multiscale Interactive Visualization: Concrete Achievements, [Honorable Mention] Progressive Horizon Graphs: Improving Debora Testi, Gordon Clapworthy, Stephen Aylward, Xavier Small Multiples Visualization of Time Series, Charles Perin, Planes, Richard Christie Frederic Vernier, Jean-Daniel Fekete Visualizing Flu Pandemic for Model Validation, Karla Vega, Kelly “Show Me the Cracks in Our Teams”: Visual Representations of Gaither, Francesca Samsel, Gregory P. Johnson, Nedialko Dimitrov, Demographic Diversity Faultlines, Tuan Pham, Ronald Metoyer, Lauren Ancel Meyers Katerina Bezrukova, Chester Spell Extending the Processing Programming Environment to Tiled SketchPadN-D: An Interface for High-Dimensional Dataset Displays, Brandt Westing, Robert Turknett Generation and Editing, Puripant Ruchikachorn, Bing Wang, Klaus Mueller Feature-Enhanced Map for 2D Multivariate Data with Uncertainty, Keqin Wu, Song Zhang Visualizing InfoVis Researchers using ContactTrees, Arnaud Sallaberry, Kwn-Liu Ma Towards Constructing a Fiber Bundle Atlas on Porcine Hearts with Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Ruiyi Wu, Song Zhang, Allen Crow OD Maps for Studying Historical Internal Migration in Ireland, Aidan Slingsby, Mary Kelly, Jason Dykes, Jo Wood InfoVis Posters Toward Composable Interactive Visualizations, Karl Smeltzer, Using Entropy in Enhancing Visualization of High Dimensional Martin Erwig, Ronald Metoyer, Christophe Torne Categorical Data, Jamal Alsakran, Ye Zhao, Xiaoke Huang, Alex Midget, Jing Yang

21 Interactive Visual Clustering of High Dimensional Data by VDQAM: A Toolkit for Database Quality Evaluation based on Exploring Low-Dimensional Subspaces, A d r i a n W a d d e l l , Visual Morphology, Dongxing Teng, Haiyan Yang, Cuixia Ma, R. Wayne Oldford Hongan Wang A Multi-Dimensional Data Visualization Applying a Scatterplot LensingWikipedia: Parsing Text for the Interactive Visualization Packing Technique, Zheng Yunzhu, Haruka Suematsu, Takayuki of Human History, Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Maryam Siahbani, Anoop Itoh, Ryohei Fujimaki, Satoshi Morinaga, Yoshinobu Kawahara Sarkar, John Dill VAST Posters SciVis Contest Information Retrieval Failure Analysis: Visual Analytics as a Winner Support for Interactive “What-If”-Investigation, Marco Angelini, Visualization of Polarization Domains in Barium Titanate, Katrin Nicola Ferro, Guido Granato, Giuseppe Santucci, Gianmaria Scharnowski, Michael Krone, Philipp Beck, Filip Sadlo Silvello Second Place A Visual Analytics Approach to Understanding Cycling Behaviour, Visual Analysis of Phase Transitions and Polarisation Domains Roger Beecham, Jo Wood, Audrey Bowerman in Barium Titanate, Florian Lindemann, Tobias Brix, Stefan Matrix-Based Visual Correlation Analysis on Large Timeseries Diepenbrock Jörg-Stefan Praßni, Bernd Hemmer, Sören Data, Michael Behrisch, James Davey, Tobias Schreck, Daniel Linnemann, Paul Weingardt, Gerhard Wilde, Klaus Hinrichs Keim, Jörn Kohlhammer Third Place Feature-Similarity Visualization of MRI Cortical Surface Data, Ian Visualization of Barium Titanate Phase Transition using Bowman, Shantanu Joshi, Vaughan Greer, Jack Van Horn Quantization of Dipole Moment Vectors, Henry Lehmann, Patrick Augmenting Visual Representation of Affectively Charged Heyne, Oliver Mothes, Heiko Müller, Tim Smyth, Erik Berger, Information using Sound Graphs, Nadya A. Calderon, Bernhard Katja Fiedler, David Vogt, Bernhard Jung E. Riecke, Brian Fisher Time-Oriented Visualization and Anticipation, Cindy VAST Challenge Chamberland, Francois Vachon, Jean-Francois Gagnon, Simon Committee Paper Banbury, Sebastien Tremblay VAST Challenge 2012: Visual Analytics for Big Data, Kristin Cook, Visualising Variations in Household Energy Consumption, Georges Grinstein, Mark Whiting, Michael Cooper, Paul Havig, Sarah Goodwin, Jason Dykes Kristen Liggett, Bohdan Nebesh, Celeste Lyn Paul Optimizing an SPT-Tree for Visual Analytics, Connor Gramazio, Mini-Challenge 1 Award Winners Remco Chang BANKSAFE: A Visual Situational Awareness Tool for Large-Scale Using Translational Science in Visual Analytics, Tera Marie Green, Computer Networks, Fabian Fischer, Johannes Fuchs, Florian Brian Fisher Mansmann, Daniel A. Keim Incorporating GOMS Analysis into the Design of an EEG Data SemanticPrism: a Multi-Aspect View of Large High-Dimensional Visual Analysis Tool, Hua Guo, Diem Tran, David H. Laidlaw Data, Victor Yingjie Chen, Ahmad M. Razip, Sungahn Ko, Cheryl Zhenyu Qian, David S.Ebert [Honorable Mention] Visualizing Cyber Physical Data Streams Using Radial Pixel Rings, Ming Hao, Manish Marwah, Sebastian BusinessForensics HQ, Robert Pabst Mittelstadt, Halldór Janetzko, Daniel Keim, Umeshwar Dayal, Visual Analytics for Situation Awareness of a Large-Scale Cullen Bash, Carlos Felix, Chandrakant Patel, Meichun Hsu Network, Chris Horn, Chris Ellsworth [Best Poster] Exploring the Impact of Emotion on Visual M-Sieve: A Visualisation Tool for Supporting Network Security Judgement, Lane Harrison, Remco Chang, Aidong Lu Analysts, S. Choudhury, N. Kodagoda, P. Nguyen, C. Rooney, Visualizing Flows of Images in Social Media, Masahiko Itoh, S. Attfield, K. Xu, Y. Zheng, B.L.W. Wong, R. Chen, G. Mapp, L. Masashi Toyoda, Tetsuya Kamijo, Masaru Kitsuregawa Slabbert, M. Aiash, A. Lasebae Using Visual Analytics to Detect Problems in Datasets Collected OWLAP - using OLAP approach in anomaly detection, L. Dudás, From Photo-Sharing Services, Alexander Kachkaev, Jo Wood Zs. Fekete, J. Göbölös-Szabó, A. Radnai, Á. Salánki, A. Szabó, G. Szücs A Generic Model for the Integration of Interactive Visualization and Statistical Computing Using R, Johannes Kehrer, Roland N. Monitoring the Health of Computer Networks with Visualization, Boubela, Peter Filzmoser, Harald Piringer A. Kachkaev, I. Dillingham, R. Beecham, S. Goodwin, N. Ahmed, A. Slingsby The Spatiotemporal Multivariate Hypercube for Discovery of Patterns in Event Data, Fred Olislagers, Marcel Worring Mini-Challenge 1 Honorable Mentions Priming Locus of Control to Affect Performance, Alvitta Ottley, Visualizing Large Scale Patterns and Anomalies in Geospatial R. Jordan Crouser, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Remco Chang Data, Robert F. Stark, Arthur Wollocko, Michael Borys, Megan Kierstead, Michael Farry Visual Exploration of Local Interest Points in Sets of Time Series, Tobias Schreck, Lyubka Sharalieva, Franz Wanner, SitaVis - Interactive Situation Awareness Visualization of Large Juergen Bernard, Tobias Ruppert, Tatiana von Landesberger, Datasets, Francis C. B. Williams, William J. Faithfull, Jonathan C. Benjamin Bustos Roberts I n f o g r a p h i c s a t t h e C o n g r e s s i o n a l B u d g e t O f fi c e , Enhancing the “Think Loop Process” with Consistent Interactions, Jonathan Schwabish Lya Laberge, Sid Kaul, Naomi Anderson, Charles Agnew, David Goldstein, Jake Kolojejchick A Case Study: Tracking and Visualizing the Evolution of Dark Matter Halos and Groups of Satellite Halos in Cosmology Simulations, Jay Takle, Deborah Silver, Katrin Heitmann

22 HIVEBEAT - A Highly Interactive Visualization Environment for 3D Anomaly Bar Visualization for Large-Scale Network, Broad-Scale Exploratory Analysis and Tracing, Robert Krüger Tao Zhang, Qi Liao, Lei Shi Harald Bosch, Steffen Koch, Christoph Müller, Guido Reina, Network Infrastructure Visualisation Using High-Dimensional Dennis Thom , Thomas Ertl Node-Attribute Data, Helen Gibson, Paul Vickers Mini-Challenge 2 Award Winner Combining Traditional and High-Density Visualizations in a Investigating Network Traffic Through Compressed Graph Dashboard to Network Health Monitoring, Yussif Barcelos, Visualization, Lei Shi, Qi Liao, Chunxin Yang Flavia Aburjaile, Laura R. Leite, Solange T. Oliveira, Raquel C. de Mini-Challenge 2 Honorable Mentions Melo-Minardi NetSecRadar: A Real-Time Visualization System for Network Interactively Finding Anomalies in Geo-temporal Multivariate Security, Ying Zhao, Fangfang Zhou, Ronghua Shi Data, Gosia Migut, Justin van Wees, Diederik Bakker, Bart de Goede, Haska Steltenphol, Nick Oude Lenferink, Marcel Worring Dynamic Analysis of Large Datasets with Animated and Correlated Views, Yong Cao, Reese Moore, Peng Mi, Alex Endert, Agile Visual Analytics for Banking Cyber “Big Data”, David Jonker, Chris North, Randy Marchany Scott Langevin, Peter Schretlen, Casey Canfield Visual Analytics for Network Security, Georgiy Shurkhovetskyy, Other Submissions Ahmed Bahey, Mohammad Ghoniem Big Data Exploration through Visual Analytics, Nascif A. Abousalh-Neto, Sumeyye Kazgan Federating Geovisual Analytic Tools for Cyber Security Analysis, Mingyi Zhao, Chen Zhong, Richard Ciamaichelo, Michael Konek, Chart- and Matrix-based Approach to Network Operations Neela Sawant, Nicklaus A. Giacobe Forensics, Jan Hildenbrand, Daniel-Ionut Paval, Prakash Thapa, Christian Rohrdantz, Florian Mansmann, Enrico Bertini, Irregular Trend Finder: Visualization Tool for Analyzing Time- Tobias Schreck Series Big Data, Shinnosuke Takeda, Aimi Kobayashi, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Saori Okubo, Kazuo Misue Pixel-Oriented Treemap for Multiple Displays, Haeyong Chung, Yong Ju Cho, Jessica Self, Chris North situ: Situational Understanding and Discovery for Cyber Attacks, Lane Harrison, Jason Laska, Riley Spahn, Mike Iannacone, Evan Downing, Erik M. Ferragut, John R. Goodall

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